He arrived late, and by the time he was eighty percent full, the dozen or so people at the table were already drunk. The remaining five or six people all had red faces, smelled of alcohol, and were about to sneak under the table the next moment.
Li Bochen drained the remaining wine from several wine bottles on the table into a pot, put it in his arms and went out.
No one stopped him - it was the wealthy shopkeeper upstairs who paid the bill, not the clerks below.
After leaving the restaurant, I was hit by the north wind on the street, which made me sober. He took the 30 yuan and found a foot shop along the street, spent 20 yuan and lived in a single room. The room was small and could only accommodate a bed and a stool, but it was much more comfortable than being on the snowfield.
He lay on the bed and let out a long breath, took out the wine bottle from his arms and took a sip.
Being in a restaurant is not all about eating and drinking. After listening to those people in the banquet talking nonsense, they had a rough idea of the current situation in Beikou Town. There are still a dozen businesses left in the town, and almost all of them are short of manpower. One is because the number of leather goods received this year is two or three times that of previous years, and the other is because many of the workers were afraid of the monsters' offensive in Wuliang City in the past few days and ran away first. In fact, the two are the same thing.
He heard that a smaller group was going to Qingzhou. Counting the shopkeepers, there were only six or seven of them at the moment. This caravan became his target.
We can't place our hopes on Sui Buxiu always keeping his word. What's more, he himself didn't know why the noble prince had softened his attitude.
So Cheongju is a better choice. Qingzhou was in the east of Sui State, bordering Li State. More than ten years ago, the State of Li was conquered and destroyed by the four vassal states led by the Son of Heaven. It is still jointly governed by the five states.
In recent years, wars with the demon kingdom have become more frequent, and the emperor and the four kingdoms have called for more and more military service. However, the situation in the old land of Li State had just been stabilized. In order to avoid civil unrest, the officials of the five countries used lenient measures, which allowed the people there to escape these hard labors.
He can go to Xiliu City in Qingzhou. Xiliu City is also considered prosperous, with a good place to hide and a good way to make a living. After leaving Xiliu City, it will take another twenty or thirty miles to enter the territory of Li Kingdom. If Sui Wujiu or Sui Buhui regrets later and sends people to arrest him, he can also flee to the old land of Li Kingdom nearby. At the moment, there is a mixture of fish and dragons there, like a pool of muddy water, and he can be safe by diving into it.
Until tomorrow, you can find a way to sneak into the caravan.
After thinking about this section, I drank all the wine in the pot. I went out to the hut again, returned to the house, wrapped myself in a black quilt and slept against the wall.
He works hard when he is not sleeping, and does not rest when he is asleep. I don't know how long it took, but Li Bochen woke up from his dream - this was what he had cheated on drinking before.
As soon as he "opened his eyes", he was shocked - two bloody men, Yan Baiheng and Bai Ying, stood beside his bed and stared at him. Although the Yin spirit's body is almost translucent, the expression on its face can still be seen. Yan Baiheng seemed unwilling to give in, while Baiying looked a little angry.
Both of them died at his hands indirectly and directly, so it makes sense to follow him and pester him. In addition to these two ghosts, the room was also filled with layers upon layers of ghosts from the soldiers in Wuliang City. But after a few days, the number has decreased a lot. At present, there are only about a hundred left. The others must have slowly dispersed on the road.
You can drink them away, but doing it one by one is always tiring and Li Bochen has long been used to this kind of thing, so he doesn't pay attention to it anymore.
He walked through the wall and walked around the foot shop first, but found nothing unusual. At this time, more than a hundred Yin spirits followed him, as if he was traveling with a group of Yin soldiers.
Then walked to the street. It shouldn't have been long since he fell asleep. The street was quite lively at this time, and the lights were on in the restaurants. So he first checked the dark corners nearby where people could easily hide, and then headed to the south of the town. There is a garrison in the south, and more than a hundred sergeants guarding the north entrance stay there.
But there was nothing unusual at the garrison. It seemed that they had not received instructions to claim him in the town.
Sui Buxiu must have kept his word, Li Bochen thought. I planned to go back to the foot shop so that I could have a good sleep at night.
But just as he walked to the door of the foot shop, he suddenly noticed a red light at one end of the street. Before he could react, the figure wearing a red leather coat that he had seen in his dream a few days ago appeared in front of him.
This person's face had been blurry a few days ago, but now it was a little clearer, as if a layer of gauze was covering his face. This person looked like a woman, and her eyebrows seemed to be spread out with light ink on the slightly damp paper. He bowed to Li Boxen first, and then said: "This Taoist brother, this little god is about to suffer a great disaster. Please save me, Taoist brother, and I will be rewarded generously!"
Li Bochen still didn't want to pay attention to him. Rumors about mountain spirits harming people in their dreams are well known in the Central Continent. Although it was his first time encountering such a thing, he knew that as long as he ignored it, it would be fine.
But just as he was about to enter the foot shop, he suddenly realized that the first time the figure called him "True Lord" with fear, but tonight, the title had been changed to "Brother Dao".
He is now in a sensitive situation and needs to be more careful in everything. So I thought about it in my mind for a while - cultivators who have extremely high levels of cultivation can indeed call themselves "true kings". This is just a polite statement, and those true kings in the Netherworld who truly control destiny will not be offended by this.
But this time, he called himself "Brother Dao", which was obviously several levels lower than the title "True Lord".
Is it because... when I first saw myself in a dream, I saw hundreds of Yin spirits around me, but now there are only more than a hundred?
The man in red actually stared at him. Thinking about it carefully, if she is really a spirit that wants to harm people, why not choose some ordinary people, but focus on herself, who looks very weird and is surrounded by many evil spirits?
Last time the man in red just said a word and disappeared from his dream, but this time he stayed longer. Seeing Li Bochen pause for a moment, the man in red said again: "If Brother Dao refuses to save you, the little god will come to the netherworld and report to the True Lord, Yuan Lord, and Emperor, saying that Brother Dao has mistakenly attracted Yin spirits! "
Li Bochen's heart skipped a beat when he heard her say this.
This thing...is it really a tiger! ?
The land of the Central Continent is vast, with many mountains and rivers. It is said that the emperors, Yuanjun, and Zhenjun who control the fate of life and death in the netherworld canonize some living spiritual gods to control the fortune of mountains and rivers on the earth. People often call them mountain gods, river gods, and land gods.
The mountain god is also called the tiger king. In addition to being in charge of the fortune of a place, it is said that he also has the job of gathering wandering ghosts and waiting for the underworld to index. When the man in red said this, Li Boxen had to pay attention.
He had never dealt with these things before, and for a moment he didn't know how to respond to her.
However, the man in red seemed to feel that his words made Li Bochen jealous, and he bowed again and said in a slightly softened tone: "The little god just wants to borrow these more than a hundred Yin soldiers from Brother Tao. Brother Tao is in the world of life, and he needs money for cultivation. "Hua, the little god knows that there is a place called Huanghuai Slope ten miles away from here, and there is a dead old locust tree at the foot of the slope. There is a jar of treasure buried three feet under the old locust tree. Brother Taoist, you can take it all!"
